Nutrition for Growth Paris 2025: what to expect?

The Nutrition 4 Growth Paris Summit plays a crucial role in driving global and national actions to support the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Summit will announce political and financial commitments, deliver bold and innovative SMART commitments across thematic areas, and present high-level recommendations to mobilise the global and national community to achieve the existing commitments to:

• The renewed World Health Assembly (WHA) Global Nutrition Targets,
• the 2014 Rome Declaration on Nutrition, and
• accelerate achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The outcomes of the Summit will be endorsed in the Paris 2025 N4G Global Compact. To meet the global challenge of ending malnutrition in all its forms, concerted and coordinated actions are needed by governments, civil society and the private sector, supported by the international community.

In 2021, the N4G Tokyo summit mobilized over $27 billion through 396 registered commitments made by 181 stakeholders across 78 countries. N4G Paris will be another crucial opportunity to build on the momentum achieved in Japan. It aims to mobilize financial and political commitments again. The latter encompass any non-financial commitment and thus range in type, from the enabling environment, to policy, to programmatic or impact commitments.

Key highlights from the Framework documents of the N4G Paris Summit:

Despite the progress made over the past two decades in the fight against malnutrition, challenges remain, such as conflicts, climate change and pandemics that disrupt food systems and health systems. Addressing malnutrition requires comprehensive strategies targeting poverty, health, social protection and education, in addition to crisis response.

Investing in nutrition yields high returns - every $1 spent on reducing malnutrition yields an average of $23 (World Bank, 2024). Achieving SDG 2 by 2030 requires $39-50 billion annually, but the economic and social benefits could reach $5.7 trillion annually by 2030 (Nutrition for Growth, Vision and Roadmap, 2025). A long-term, sustainable commitment is needed to combat malnutrition effectively. As the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025) comes to an end, collective efforts, including collaboration between the public and private sectors, are urgently needed to accelerate progress and achieve global nutrition goals.

Although not a specific N4G thematic area, nutrition leadership and governance should be integrated into commitments across all N4G themes. Governments and multilateral organisations should improve governance mechanisms to embed nutrition in systems, policies and plans, and ensure better coordination and leadership, especially for women.

Commitments should promote policy coherence and integration in sectors such as health, food systems, climate, sanitation, social protection, gender, education and finance. Stronger coordination among governments, donors, CSOs and international organisations is essential to break down silos, minimise duplication and improve service delivery.

Want to learn more? Download the framework documents of the N4G Paris Summit :

Vision | Commitment guide | 2025 Summary of Recommendations of Commitments by N4G theme |